bdougherty

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by bdougherty 8mo ago
The spinoff definitely came at a particularly bad time, but that was always how it was going to end up because that is how IAC operates. Vimeo was probably doomed from the moment IAC acquired Connected Ventures. It was never going to be the
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by bdougherty 8mo ago
The custom stuff was all on the transcoding and player sides. Actual video file storage and delivery was using a variety of well-known CDNs depending on when and where, but primarily Akamai.
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by bdougherty 8mo ago
The people in this video were mostly CollegeHumor people (I think there are 4 Vimeans in there), but the last one left about 10 years ago now.
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by bdougherty 2y ago
I miss the days when interfaces didn't have to be light white on white or dark black on black. When people thought about contrast and things looked interesting. Discord is my go-to example with this. Before the dark/light craze, t
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by bdougherty 2y ago
React is also extremely easy to get it wrong.
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by bdougherty 2y ago
Screen readers actually do generate a couple of different things that you could consider a ToC from the semantic meaning of various tags. If you structure your document properly, it's not a terribly difficult task for the browser to ge
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by bdougherty 2y ago
We didn't have that in the article?
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by bdougherty 2y ago
Nope, that results in significant extra complexity because now you have to implement all the stuff that the browser does for the other tags so that your website works the way people expect. (and you will get it wrong)
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by bdougherty 2y ago
I don't get it. What are people going to a website for if not for the content of that page?
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by bdougherty 3y ago
Until the org chart is reorganized, then what?
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by bdougherty 3y ago
Some people do not need the updates, some will pay a fair value for the updates. Nobody is asking for non-subscription software to be priced the same as the subscription. Bottom line is that the App Store not having upgrade pricing has forc
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by bdougherty 3y ago
Because it is nearly impossible for it to be truly anonymous.
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by bdougherty 3y ago
There is actually an iCloud Passwords app for Windows already.
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by bdougherty 3y ago
> It also benefits users in that you can implement more features and fix more bugs in less time. This is mostly a bullshit answer that is hardly ever the case in reality and is pretty much always used as an excuse to favor developers ove
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by bdougherty 3y ago
Production is only as hard as you make it.
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by bdougherty 4y ago
> I don't see why it's so offensive to you that others are making different choices. Because those choices have had a major negative impact on everyone, especially and most importantly and significantly on the people who visit
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by bdougherty 4y ago
DRM is not good, but if they didn't specify DRM, it would still end up in browsers as proprietary methods, or it's possible proprietary browser plugins like Flash would have continued to exist. Unfortunately, you can't just m
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by bdougherty 4y ago
What is the benefit of tRPC over built-in SvelteKit data loading?
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by bdougherty 4y ago
I copied this from a specific project, so there might be a couple things missing, but here is generally what I use https://gist.github.com/bdougherty/404b4ca33dfdbff48614b454f...
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by bdougherty 4y ago
This is an opinion trapped in 2010. You can build both "simple arrangements of rectangles" and way more complicated layouts easily now. What would you propose as a replacement?
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by bdougherty 4y ago
> Ask the people who invented CSS why they built it in a way that is really really hard to understand - even for simple things. Can you give an example or explain more about this?
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by bdougherty 4y ago
I cannot agree with this comment any more. Every time I read any one of these Tailwind threads, I am yelling in my head "SVELTE!!!!" the whole time. Going against the current of the platform is a recipe for disaster every time, an
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by bdougherty 4y ago
Whether you like it or not, the cascading part of cascading style sheets is an integral part of the web platform, and one is better off in the long run swimming with the current of the platform rather than against it.
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by bdougherty 4y ago
Because previously you had to be blessed to get a bluecheck, now you just have to pay. Way more people have the means to pay than were blessed.
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by bdougherty 4y ago
I only ever use it in the car with CarPlay.
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by bdougherty 4y ago
Here’s a good article that describes some of the reasons: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/SystemSettings.html
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by bdougherty 4y ago
It's not about System Settings being vertical now. Just look at any of the panels and tell me how the new version is an improvement on the old? The panels in System Preferences were meticulously designed and the new ones are just a lis
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by bdougherty 4y ago
It is getting ripped up, but all the new people on the platform are unaware of how much better it was before. I don't think anybody has issues changing things to make them better for newcomers as long as Apple doesn't throw out
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by bdougherty 4y ago
Huh? How can you draw that conclusion from that data? Just because people are moving to the best option does not mean that option is not getting worse.
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by bdougherty 4y ago
Telescreen, newspeak, mass surveillance, perpetual war, "officials" acting as if what they are saying now is always what they said, etc. It's almost easier to list the things that we don't have in common.

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